Materia choices for Glad?

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Originally Posted by Evaddaragon

Well I beg to differ. I HAVE seen it.

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Sorry for taking so long to get a response to you all about this. This isn't actually a bug, as with the changes made in patch 1.19, you can only focus on blocking when you have a shield equipped and will be unable to parry.

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Also, partially doesn't mean anything in the combat logs. There's no such thing as a partial block or parry, though low block power shields can technically fail even when they do trigger, based on the monster level. "Partially" is just flavor text for when things don't do zero damage.

While I thank you for the info, would you be so kind as to redirect me to the actual thread this quote from Bayohne comes from ? I barely played a few days when patch 1.19 went live to get my chocobo, then left for a few weeks and only came back when 1.20 came in. Then after going from 44 to 50 by doing caravans runs, I mainly played with my CNJ, getting it to 50 this week-end. So as I said, I didn't take time to really test anything on it.


Since there is no mention at all in 1.19 patch notes about it, what you are just showing me is entirely new to me, and would like to know more about it.

I thank you in advance.

If indeed the "partially" word in the chat log means nothing, then SE needs to remove it. "Adding flavor" and "being misguiding" are not quite the same thing to me. :)

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Originally Posted by Evaddaragon

While I thank you for the info, would you be so kind as to redirect me to the actual thread this quote from Bayohne comes from ?

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You can click the small button in the quote box, it looks like this ( http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i...post-right.png ) and is next to his name. This will link you to the original post, and the thread it is from.

If you can't find it somehow, here. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...740#post404740

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Originally Posted by Stufoo

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Wow, I didn't even know about that feature. How convenient. ^^

If you want to see the effectiveness of defense+ materia just pop rampart and see how much your dmg taken is reduced by. Pro-tip: get defense+ materia on that shield and body.

Did 6-7 ifrits in a row without using aegis boon once, I moved it to bar 3 that I only use to put abilities there I macro, and only blocked 4 out of the 367 melee swings, the only attack you can shield block. Yes I used a parser to test it, no I did not mess up testing it, yes I had dex rings + sentinel gauntlets on the entire time and used outmanuever on cd, no I don't give a fuck if you think block rate is good or not on ifrit. You guys can wear or materia whatever you think is best, just don't tell me defense, shield block value or shield block rate matters on ifrit. (CURRENTLY)

I also did testing on bladed lantern shield VS vintage kite shield with BLS doing 28% block rate and VKS doing 34% block rate on the same exact level 50 drubber (no outmaneuver at all), since I can solo the ferereretkakekr NM with either shield and not struggle with it I just use BLS for the incredibly minor dps increase until I can stop having double hp materia shields blow up.

I am not pleased the least bit about how effective shield is against higher level NMs or the two primals, nor do I like how almost unnoticeable defense and vitality are currently. Get hit by king moggle, mrd, archer and take damage, pop rampart cause of mog eye shot, get hit for same damage or higher -_-

Here's to hoping stats matter more for 1.21.

Its true that boon might not be as usefull as we want it to be for Ifrit. However, I dont just use it to block Ifrit attack.

I actually use it every CD to trigger War Drums, the dmg reduction/heal is just a plus for me.

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Originally Posted by FeliciaVale

Going to remateria my glad's gear and wondering what the best choices for materia would be? Mainly wondering how vit and defense worked. Does it share a similar relationship to str and attack power?

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i saw a thread on enmity, the guy tested enmity materia +10 enmity materia = 1 enmity. not very good imo. im gonna try to double meld a hp belt instead.

No, 1 enmity = 0.1% extra enmity on an action. So assuming +48 enmity on double materia'd sword and waist with it being 12 on all 4 materia you get 4.8% extra enmity on an action. Turning that 550ish enmity provoke into 576.4 enmity provoke.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Translation%29

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Originally Posted by Treach

No, 1 enmity = 0.1% extra enmity on an action. So assuming +48 enmity on double materia'd sword and waist with it being 12 on all 4 materia you get 4.8% extra enmity on an action. Turning that 550ish enmity provoke into 576.4 enmity provoke.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Translation%29

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stay with me here its gonna get complicated. i wrote +10 = 1 and you wrote no, +1= 0.1. k, now convert your +1 to 10 and see what you get. k, now that you see that they are the same thing, you are assuming this person has the resources to pull off perfect double melds on multiple items?